Penn State Impact: Fixing Our Healthcare Systems Engineering tools and principles can be used to improve healthcare systems. Innovative approaches to caring for patients with chronic diseases, improving communications with electronic health records, as well as developing new medical devices contribute to the promise of better healthcare for many patients.Author(s): No creator set

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Fritz Haber: Great Minds Hank introduces us to the brilliant and heartless Fritz Haber, a great mind who is considered "the father chemical warfare," but who also made discoveries and innovations that helped lead to the Green Revolution which is credited with preventing the starvation of over a billion people. (09:41)

Expedition 34/35 Mission Overview Commander Kevin Ford leads Expedition 34 as the six-member crew conducts science and research that cannot be performed on Earth. Ford and the other five crew members Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin, Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn, discuss the challenges and opportunities of living and working in space. Expedition 34/35 expects visits from a Russian and European cargo vehicle as well as two commercial cargo craft vehicles, the SpaceX Dragon and Orbital SciencesAuthor(s): No creator set

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College Physics IIErik Christensen
This introductory, algebra-based, two-semester college physics book is grounded with real-world examples, illustrations, and explanations to help students grasp key, fundamental physics concepts. […]Author(s): No creator set

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ICAtect: Integrating Design Tools for Preliminary Architectural Design ICAtect is a knowledge based system that provides an interface between expert systems, simulation packages and CAD systems used for preliminary architectural design. This thesis describes its structure and development.The principal work discussed in this thesis involves the formulation of a method for representing a building. This is developed through an examination of a number of design tools used in architectural design, and the ways in which each of these describe a building.Methods of enabliAuthor(s): Amor, R.W.

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'Value for money' makes the world go round Professor Peter Williamson believes that in 2009, for the first time, it will be the emerging economies who will be providing 100% of the world's economic growth. Their ability, in particular China's, to successfully unlock access to mass markets by providing affordable 'value for money' new technology, is a key driver of their growth. This cost innovation model, he explains, can offer the West invaluable lessons on how to survive the current global economic downturn.Author(s): No creator set

The internet provides a world of information, but how do you find what you are looking for? This course will help you discover the meaning of information quality and teach you how to evaluate the material you come across in your study of technology. You will learn how to plan your searches effectively and be able to experiment with some of the key resources in this area.

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Colloquium Week 2: Myths about the Medieval World There are some standard modern myths (e.g. "medieval people thought the earth was flat"; "they were considered old at the age of 30", etc.) which historians are always encountering in their audiences, and I will try to de-bunk some of these.Author(s): No creator set

Sign language launches communication, minimizes frustration PULLMAN, Wash. - Infant/young toddler communication is often a challenge for everyone involved. It can include hand waving, indistinguishable noises, crying, screaming and tantrums. On the other side of the equation, parents, siblings and babysitters are trying to figure out what the little tikes want.
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McMaster's downtown Health Campus McMaster broke ground on its downtown Health Campus Dec. 3 which, when complete, will see 54,000 patient visits and 4,000 McMaster students pass through each year.
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If species are grouped together because they show a similar extent of accumulated anagenetic change with respect to their ancestors, then the taxa so formed constitute grades. In Figure 1, morphological change is represented along the horizontal axis. The three columns show grades of anagenetic modification, with pa

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In this section, you will meet the term ‘thermal conductivity’ and you will be asked to accept that it is ‘a measure of how readily heat flows from a particular material’. You may be uncomfortable about the lack of detailed explanation of how it is measured and of actual values and units. However, at alAuthor(s): The Open University

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Reactivity is not spread evenly over a molecule; it tends to be concentrated at particular sites. The consequences of this idea are apparent in the chemistry of many elements. However, in organic chemistry, the idea has proved so valuable that it receives specific recognition through the concept of the functional group. Structure 6.1 shows the abbreviated structural formula of hexan-1-ol, an alcohol.

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